Asahi Shimbun Co. said consolidated operating profit fell 50.5 percent from a year earlier to ¥3.1 billion during the first half, marking two consecutive declines. In addition to sluggish newspaper sales affected partly by story retractions related to the “comfort women” issue and an ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. started work Tuesday to fill an underground trench at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant with cement while pumping up radioactive water inside at the same time. The power company reported the beginning of the cement-pouring work for ...

The Diet on Wednesday enacted a bill that allows Japan to join an international pact on financial liability for nuclear accidents. The Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage requires parties to share part of the compensation in the event of a nuclear accident. ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. appears unable to stem the flow of radioactive water from the No. 2 reactor building to underground tunnels at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, officials said. Tepco has injected cement into the joints that connect the tunnels, which are ...

More than three years into the massive cleanup of the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, only a tiny fraction of the workers are focused on key tasks such as preparing for the dismantling of the wrecked reactors and removing radioactive fuel rods. Instead, nearly ...

A former senior official with the now-defunct nuclear regulatory agency admitted to a government panel that the catastrophic power loss at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in March 2011 should have been prevented. Records released Wednesday show that Tetsuya Yamamoto, then safety screening ...

An evacuation drill to prepare for a nuclear disaster has been held in Niigata Prefecture, but central and prefectural government officials remained at odds over when to hand out potassium iodine pills to residents to mitigate the risk of thyroid cancer in such a ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is in talks with banks for ¥280 billion in new loans next June, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. Tepco is also scheduled next month to repay ¥150 billion in emergency borrowings related to the disaster at the ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it had finished removing all used fuel from the storage pool in the reactor 4 building, leaving only less-risky unused material in the pool. But dismantling the entire facility still has to overcome the high levels of radioactive ...

North American liquefied natural gas projects, once believed to be the panacea that would save Asia from paying top dollar for the super chilled fuel, are proving to be less of a game-changer than originally expected. High costs, grueling regulatory processes and mounting social ...